Arrête! C'est ici l'empire de la mort!

I used to be a big genshin impact lore buff, i played, i read, i was on forums, i made fanart, and then i was deeply disrespected by the game itself (this post is about natlan)

I am brazilian and i follow a religion named candomblé. Long story short, its from yoruba people who were sent to brazil as slaves, then went through a big process of spreading out to not just black people, but light-skinned people of lower classes like my family. We believe in the creation by Olorum, the power of Axé, and the Orixás.

Natlan, as of now, has two characters named Iansan and Ororon. These names come from not just the yoruba predecessors of candomblé, but also the religion itself, the Orixá deities Iansã and Olorum.

My religion, my deities. My mother's deities. The statuettes in my house. Their names are recycled cheaply to be used trivially. Never have we of candomblé ever gotten mentioned by AAA games or films that give such attention to detail like Genshin does, and we are disrespected. Our Gods are used like rags for someone's profit to be thrown away, washed out. They do not convey our beauty, our grit, our wonder, they do not convey us but they profit from us.

People love to tell us that it is just a game, but think again: games are not entitled to disrespect us just because of their nature. We are entitled to complain, to scream, because this is cruelty. You brutalize our image, butcher our names, for what?

When I was younger, I used to look at games with religious imagery very curiously. It was always weird to see the faith of the people I know be used for aesthetic reasons or just because it looks cool. The same has now happened to me, but times worse. People will say anything to justify this mockery and throw excuses to keep playing the product of a corporation that won't ever understand what it means to be us.

My thoughts on it were simple: Alina was important to the vinetan soldier (I generally assume Lillith Itou) that became Elster, Alina was present at the Sierpinski facility, the visions of Ariane don't gain long hair until she is in the white dress, while Alina is always presented with long hair and we have documentation that her hair was turning white.

Worm Girl added a few more bits of facts and theory, presenting evidence that Alina was responsible for the destruction of the memory vault that her lover was imprisoned in, a reversal of the main game's Elster's pursuit of Ariane, another layer of the twisted cycle of Orpheus and Eurydice that Signalis's plot borrows from. And she brought timelines, probable motivations, proof that I was running on vibes for.

Uh... premiere 32/12?